Any decent weblogic tutorial?

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Any decent weblogic tutorial?

Hi,

We are migrating an application from Tomcat to WebLogic. There are many things we just don't know about. Is there any decent tutorial out there?

We know about this but I'd like to read about experiencies, and/or processed information.

Thanks in advance.

It depends a lot on your app, but if you can deploy it in tomcat, I'd be surprised if you couldn't deploy it in WebLogic.

Having said that, I certainly hope you have a good reason for using WebLogic (and I hope that reason isn't "The sales guy said it's awesome"). In my admittedly limited experience with WebLogic, I've found it to be a huge pain to use and impossible to troubleshoot if something goes wrong (and it will go wrong).

On the other hand, I have lots of experience with Tomcat, which is dirt-simple to use and easy to troubleshoot (not that you need to troubleshoot, since it pretty much just works).

Seth 2009-10-29 21:47:07

Please tell me why you would get more problems on Weblogic and why it would be harder to troubleshoot than Tomcat. Weblogic is well known to be a great application server and is used for lots of critical applications. Seriously, this is ridiculous FUD!

Pascal Thivent 2009-10-29 22:27:55

Wasn't meaning to spread FUD, sorry, but it is my experience. I have dealt with lots of organizations who deploy WebLogic, but don't have staff available to maintain it. This leads to problems that take a really long time to correct. WebLogic is so complex that you can't effectively isolate problems (the UI doesn't win any points either).Unless your app really needs the huge complexity that WebLogic provides, I say you're better off with Tomcat. (I am making an assumption that the original poster does not need all those features, since he's using Tomcat now.)

Seth 2009-11-03 04:00:24

I agree that Weblogic can do much more things and that it may thus requires more knowledge. But this doesn't change the troubleshooting process: thread dumps and log files are your best tools with both of them. And you won't get more problems with Weblogic than with Tomcat.

Pascal Thivent 2009-11-04 22:04:16

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